Page 16, Whitby Free Press, WednesdaY, March 23. 1994 -~{ BROOKLTN}' $4,100 cost to hook Up to new sewer By Mark Reesor The average Brooklin property owner will h ave te pay about $4,100 to hook up te t he new sanitary sewers estimates Whitby treasurerAà fClaringbold. Thafts about 42 per cent of the actual cost of the. hook-up. The. rest of the money will corne from the developer, the Sorbara Group, and provincial grants. A total of 569 properties will b. connected te thie sewer and owners will have te pay frontage chaes and a connection fee -- which are substantially subsid- ized by the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy, Claringbold says in a report te, Town operations comrittee -- as well as private property connec- tion costs, as the work is dune. The frontage charge will b. $68. 16 a metre. «"On an average home having a frontage of 75 feet (22.86 metres), a lump sum payrnent of $1,558.14 will be reqwired,» he says, although that can b. finan- ced over a perod of' 10 years at a cost of $232.26 a year. Owners have te apply te Dur- ham Region te, connect to the sewer and ay a $1,031 fee. They also have te cover the cost of. extending the sewer frorn the property line into their resi- dences, decommnissioning their current septic sytem and an~ plumbinir modifiations whic rnay be necessary. Claringbold estimates that would cost $4,000 for the average puer i property owners are eligible te share tlhe $1,390,500 Soi-bara will pay -following the execution of t he subdivision agreemnent. T'hat works out te, $2,443 per property owner, te be- paid oui upon presentation of receipts tc the Town. Each owner's sihare will be available first for the payment of the connection fee and then for the private property work. Again considering the average Highway 407 By Gord Mille* Durham Eat MIPP The main job of Hwy. 407 will be to relieve traffic congestion on Hwy. 401, something that, for everyone who travols that way daily, can't corne soon enough. Congestion on the 401 is estimateci to cost the provincial economy more than $2 billion a year in wasted time and lost productivity. In addition, the population of the Greater Toronto Area, which includes us, Is expected to grow by 13.4 per cent in the year ending 200L That's 630,000 new residents. To address this situation, and in support of the government's commitment to creating jobs, w. announced the accelerated construction of Hwy. 407 as Ontario's first toîl highway. The project wiII be managed through an Innovative public-private partnershlp. t's a new way of doing business and is already paying dividends. It has saved Ontario taxpayors more than $200 million to date, by pointing out improvements to the original design. A key benefit of this new partnership is that the work will proceed much more quickly -- and at significant l lower cost and risk to taxpayers -- than would have been possible with the government going it atone. The proposais now under review to build the f irst portion of Hwy. 407, from the QEW in the west to Hwy. 48, corne frorn two groups of companios. The Ontario Road Development Corporation and Canadian Highways International have submitted their bids on the finance, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of the highway. More than 40 companies, comprising a significant part of Ontario's road building industry, make Up t he two consort ia. The 68-kilometre stretch bypassing Toronto to the north is expected to create 26,000 jobs. But the spin-off benefits -- jobs in firms and industries linked to the development and construction of the 407 -- could bring that total nearer to 100,000. The stretch of 407 between Hwy. 400 and the 427 is expected to be ready for use by 1996. The tol revenue comirl9 from the use of the highway will b. dedicated to offsetting design, construction and oiperating costs, The province will have the right to take over the hlghway from the selected consortium at terms spelled out in the contract. TBrookIin Pharmacy CONTACT LENSES Contact lens cases may bacteria which may buildi be a potential source of Up and contaminate the eye infections. t is lenses. It is also extremely important to recommended that the *thoraughly clean the entire lens case be replaced case including the caps every 3 manths. every day ta remove Consuit your pharmacist. 65 BALDWIN ST. BROOKLIN 655-3301 75-square-foot fronte home in Brook lin, Claringbold says that works out tç a ttlcost of $9,965 beore provincial grnts $6,591afe grants and$,4 after the developer's contribution ise co of private property work will va according to the conracor ectdto perform the work or the amount of 'sweat equity' contributed 4y the pro- perty owner," Claringbold notes. "Property values 'n -these houses wil1lb improved way beyond the value owners have te contribute, » notes councillor Marcel Brunelle. «I hope the people in Brooklin recognize the fine effort that this counicil has dune in managing te bring this about." r An Ashburn area artist is look- e nfrphotographe of the old *typost ofce building. Marta Gill is drawing the building, that had a dlock and bell tewer, and seeks photes that show more detail of any part or all of the building. Caîl collect at 905-649-5464. UCW offrers beef stew^ Broolin United Church Womnen will hold a beef stew dinner on Wednesday, March 30 at 6:30 p.m. Dinners are $8.50 for adults, $4 for children and preechoolers are free. For tickets, cail 655-4141 or 65&8716. Two dates for sale TIhe Brooklin-Whitby Minor Hockey Association Auxiliary will hod the annual bake sale on two dates this year. The bkesalewill be at Luther Vipond Arena in Brooklin on Saturday March 26 and at Iro- quois NAr~ in Whitby on Sunday, March 27. Donations of baked goods can be dropped off at the arena from 7:30 a.m. until noon on the day of the sale at each location. LISA BRULEY (left) and Ashley Galea work together at a 'fiesta with Sandra and Joanne,' one of the events put on by Whitby Public Library duri ng March break. Cild ren made Mexican-style crafts and participated in songs, dances and pinata-bashirig. P<~ ~.~F. rs Townwa-rns street vendors Tihe Town of Whitby plans te continue taMcng legal action against street vendors such as persoas selling flowers and other gooda, in contravention of the Town's zoning and licensing bylawL. According te Town clerk Don McKay, the outdoor retail sale of flowers and other goods on both privaW and public proertyis not allowed in Wbitby. No business licences for this purpose will b. issued. A fine of up to $25,000 can b. levied on a firat conviction for such an offence. Lest year, the Town was successful in having charges upheld against a nwnber of street vendors founid operating i contravention of the Town s bylaws. McKay saye bylaw enforce- ment officers will b. actively monitoring the situation during the coming montha both on weekdays and weekends. He advises that street vendors found te be i contravention of the bylaws can exped tot face prosecution. The Tg"i is currently not*dying all krýown vendors and seeking their coýoperation. The vacancy rats for private apartment bui ings (three units or more) in W1»tby was 7.2 per cent in Fclb4 ast year, the latest n th\f which statistics are available from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Cor- poration. That's a decline from April last year when tii. vacancy rate was 10.4 per cent and fromn October, 1992 when the vacancy rate rea- ched a high of 11.6 per cent. The vacancyrate was'3.5 per cent i Whitby in October, 1991. Oshawa's vacanc rate was 3.6 per cent for Ocitbr, 1993, down from 4.5 per cent in October, 1992. The vacancy rate in Durham Region as a whole was 5.2 per cent lest October- DBIA budget input FROM PAGE 1 (The money is used te improve the downtown's appearance and te sponsor promotions aimed at attractingishoppr. But DBIAch air Sean Hogue said the "idea» behind the ques- tionaire was that ail responses were te b. «unsolicited.» "The membership was to review it at their leisure, not with someone standing over thm aid Hogue. th »at h boad Office recei- ved a ette rom on.person who «felt uncomfortable with them standn over them,» he added. Secott denied that any of the respondents were coerced inte signing the questionaire. <'Nobody was foroed fite it. This was their (DBIA) form,- Scott said. «We did it when we found out the formas were going te b.e trashed,» she explained. "Once again theyre acsn pele of ntbeing duIlt enoug te no watthey1redoing.- Councillor Johin Doîstra, the Town's representative on the DRIA board, said the issue of a zero budget is a matter that must be dealt with by the board and membership. «Whatever direction they want tego m., they'll have te decide and theni bring it te, council,m said Dostra. Councillor Judi LongrId also preferred not te indicate hier position at this time. «It's not fair te comment until we ses, what the board is pre- pared te dot,» she said.' This year's budget is on hold until the board receives addi- tional responses "from the nor- mal procedure» and approves a non-related questionnaire which is being 1prepared by a special sub-committee, Hogue said. This second survey will cuver such issues as how the board should be chosen, whether the. DBIA boundaries are anpro- priate and what roIe the DBIA should play. TI%. board, which lkat year haed a $155,974 budget, han been appointed by council since the. DBIA was formed in 1978. The current board's term expires after the November municipal election. Answers to Whitby Trivia from page 2 1. The Whtby Collegiate Institute was downgraded to a high school in 1911 because it no longer had 60 Latin acholars. 2. The church used by the Presbyterians in 1833 was orignally built by the Bapists in th e 1820s. 3. Grass Park was named after Charles J. Grass (1861 - 1941) who maintained the plot of land as a public park for many years before it was Surchased from his estate y the people of Brooklin in 1951. 4. Henry Street Public School stood on the site of the present R.A. Sennett Public School from 1854 until à t was destroyed by f ire on July 4, 1920.